Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet ...

In 2025, a team from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics made a groundbreaking observation by analyzing fast ...

Research team includes astrophysicists, computer scientists, artists, and philosophers from UC Riverside, USC, and Carnegie ...

The most exciting yet controversial possibility traces back to a theory proposed by British physicist Stephen Hawking in 1971: that black holes originated from the primordial soup of the Big Bang. If ...

A team of Pennsylvania State University researchers has a unique take on mysterious red dots first observed by the James Webb ...

In 1925, Edwin Hubble's observation of Cepheid variables in the Andromeda galaxy revolutionized astronomy, proving the ...

Astronomers have discovered "dust-shrouded supermassive black holes" in the early universe, less than 1 billion years after ...

For scientists, learning more about how black holes behave is essential to understanding how the universe works. A recent ...

This image provided by NSF’s NOIRLab shows the trails of stars above Kitt Peak National Observatory, where a telescope is mapping the universe to study a mysterious force called dark energy ...

For the three astrophysicists who won the Nobel Prize in physics today (Oct. 4), it was only a matter of when, not if, they would get the prize, their peers said. Their discovery that the universe's ...

Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant known galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0. This record-breaking detection is making astronomers rethink how quickly galaxies formed in the early Universe. Two ...

A newly discovered set of mathematical equations describes how to turn any sequence of random events into a clock, scientists ...